Improvement in seed-planters



S. SMITH, 1r.

Seed-Planters.

Patented Marvch17.18.74v.

@ummm fER @Humana STATES SIMEON SMITH, JR., OF NEWBURG, TENNESSEE,

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDPLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,766, dated March 17, 1874; application filed September 13, 1873. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIMEON SMITH, Jr., of Newburg, in the county of Lewis and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved Seed-Planter, of which the following is a specifica-tion:

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure lis a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the beam; B, the truck-wheels; C, the axle; I),the front furrow-opening plow; E,the eoYering-plows 5 F, the seed-disk; G, the hopper; Il, the pocket in the hopper; I, the eutol' pad; J, the spring; K, the recess behind the spring; and L, the iexible material in the recess behind the spring, to keep the space A full to exclude the grain, and allow the spring to work forward and back, to allow the grain to pass under the pad freely, and prevent any catching and cutting or breaking of the grain.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with a hopper, Gr, and seedl disk F H, relatively arranged as shown and described, of the beam A, having recess K, filled with compressible material Ii, the spring J, and the cutoff pad I, as and for the purpose described.

Vitnesses: SIMEON SMITH, JR.

O. T. PLUMMER, L. B. PLUMMER. 

